It is as certain as it is marvelous that truth and error come from one source. Therefore one often may not injure error, because at the same time one injures truth.
Original text (German)
Original text (German)
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Of freedom and of life he only is deserving
Who every day must conquer them anew.
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